Schwarzerblitz
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Schwarzerblitz is a love letter to '90s 3D low-poly fighters, featuring 28 playable characters, more than 30 stages, ring out mechanics, classic arcade endings, and a complete story mode. Steel your fists and ride the lightning!
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"Indie fighter Schwarzerblitz pays tribute to early ’90s 3D fighters" - Shoryuken"Schwarzerblitz shows love to early polygonal fighters" - SiliconeraSchwarzerblitz is a love letter to '90s 3D low-poly fighters, featuring 27 playable characters, more than 30 stages, ring out mechanics, classic arcade endings, and a complete story mode. Steel your fists and let the Black Lightning strike!StoryIt's 2065 and the world is not what we used to know. Fennoscandia has sunk deep into the ocean, half of Ireland is ridden by haemophages, nuclear power has been replaced by reality-distortion-resonance (RDR) power plants, and an alien planetoid has made first contact for more than fifty years, by now.In 2064, a major accident shook the whole Europe: Euterpe, the Italian capitol city, was razed by an explosion of incredible power, followed by a storm of black lightnings. The accounts of the witnesses diverged and no light was shed on the real cause of the disaster. After a one-year manhunt, the Delta Team has finally found a consistent trail, which leads directly to a secret government project known as Schwarzer Blitz, "the black lightning"...Game Mechanicsfive button system: Guard, Punch, Kick, Tech and Triggerfluid combo system: most attacks can chain into each other, leading to long strings and combosimpact attacks: send your opponent flying with powerful blows - if near the border of the stage, this will throw them out of the ringtrigger attacks: by using a bullet counter, the next attack will break the opponent's guard and increases the hitstun, leading to easier combos and humongous damagetrigger guard / combo breaker: when comboed, you can use a bullet counter to cancel the hitstun and strike back against your opponentMain Features28 playable charactersA total of more than 100 skins (circa 4 per character)40+ different stages with animated background elements and ring out mechanicsarcade, survival, time-attack... you name it!5h long story mode with several CG cutscenes, and an overarching story joining all arcade endings togethergallery mode, arcade ending theaterextensive training mode with frame advantage data, tutorials and trialslocal multiplayer, both with joypad or split-keyboard8-way movement in a complete 3D environmentextended movelists for every character, listing every possible chainvaried soundtrack with different genres and tunesmoddable game engine with Steam Workshop supportcontrols can be freely remapped in-game. Both keyboard and joypads are supported (both XInput and DirectInput)a drunken shark-mana politically incorrect robotA FRIGGIN' AUSSIE RAPTOR WITH A MINIGUN!
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MINORCelebrating 10 years of Schwarzerblitz - Final Call for Fan Art
Ten years? TEN YEARS!You've read it right: Schwarzerblitz is now a decade old! Development started in May 2016. Here's a relic of that time, featuring my old defunct laptop too in my Heildeberg room =
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MINOR[BUG FIX] Fixed Shaz's combo trial
Shaz's combo trial became impossible to finish due to a mistake in a configuration file in the last update. This fixes it.
MINOR[Bug Fix] Fixed Miralock and Shazfinite
A hard lock was caused by performing Mira's j.K close to the ring's edge after a ring out. The root cause hasn't been removed, but now the game won't hang if this happens again. Also, fixed an uninten
MINORSchwarzerblitz v1.7.0 is out!
Schwarzerblitz v 1.7.0 (11.08.2025)As promised for a while, a new patch of Schwarzerblitz is now fresh out of the oven, taking into account feedback that came out of my experience at EVO too! Full pat
MINORSchwarzerblitz at EVO 2025 - this is not a drill!
THAT'S RIGHT! Schwarzerblitz will be featured as a part of the indie fighting game developer expo as a part of EVO Las Vegas, from August 1 to August 3!Come with your friends and play Schwarzerblitz a
MINOR[Minor bug fix] Fixed Donner's second trial visual glitch
One of Donner's combos in Donner's second trial ("Impact Cancel Combo #2") advanced the input by one step too much because of a configuration error. It was just a display glitch, the trial could be cl
MINOR2024 Character popularity poll - the results!
Hello, Schwarzerblitz players! The 2024 Character Popularity Poll is over! Thanks to all who have taken part - this has been the largest Schwarzerblitz survey since the game's alpha launch in 2017! No
MINORThe Schwarzerblitz 2024 Character Popularity Poll is now open!
Hello, Schwarzerblitz players! A lot of time has passed since I launched a character popularity poll for this game! Now, after v1.6 has been shipped, it is time to make amends and hear your voice! The
MAJOR[Major Bug Fix] Steam Deck Input issues solved
A major bug that caused the input to lag on Steam Deck or Linux + Proton while playing with a joypad has finally been fixed. Thank you for your patience and massive thanks to everyone who helped fixin
MAJORMinor update: v.1.6.1 (16.07.2024)
Schwarzerblitz v.1.6.1 (16.07.2024) Character changes Lucia 9P can now be cancelled on whiff (rationale: Lucia, contrary to most other characters, couldn't cancel any of her moves on whiff. This updat
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